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Don Blankenship Biography

Don Blankenship is one of the most popular and richest Business Magnate who was born on March 14, 1950 in Stopover, United States. Donald Leon Blankenship (born March 14th 1950) is an American business executive who was a presidential candidate in the United States Senate in West Virginia in the year 2018. He was the Chairman and CEO of Massey Energie Company – the sixth-largest company in coal (by production in 2008) in America–from 2000 until his retirement in.

Blankenship has been certified public accountant. In 2002 the year 2002, he was inducted in the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants’ Business and Industry Hall of Fame and recognized by the West Virginia Society of Certified Public Accountants as an Outstanding Member of Business and Industry. Blankenship was also admitted into the Tug Valley Mining Institute Hall of Fame.

A former employee of Blankenship, Deborah May, similarly filed a lawsuit claiming that stress from personal abuse forced her to quit her job in November 2005. The lawsuit claimed that such comparatively minor mistakes as a wrong breakfast order from McDonald’s, misplaced ice cream in the freezer, and an improperly hung jacket in the closet caused difficulties with Blankenship. In June 2008, West Virginia’s top court ruled that May was entitled to unemployment benefits because “the unrefuted evidence” showed that Blankenship “physically grabbed” the maid, threw food after she brought back the wrong fast-food order, and tore a tie rack and coat hanger out of a closet after she forgot to leave the hanger out for his coat. “This shocking conduct” showed May was in effect fired because she felt compelled to quit, the justices said.

Blankenship has two children. He was profiled in a 2005 West Virginia Public Broadcasting documentary, The Kingmaker.

in 1996 Blankenship has been elected as a member of the board for the engineering and construction firm Fluor Corporation. He is also director at the Center for Energy and Economic Development as well as director for the National Mining Association, Mission West Virginia Inc as well as was a member of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce board of directors.

Ethnicity, religion & political views

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Blankenship is an active participant in West Virginia politics. During a speech at the Tug Valley Mining Institute on November 20, 2008, Blankenship called House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senator Harry Reid and former Vice President Al Gore “crazies” and “greeniacs.”

Don Blankenship Net Worth

Don Blankenship is one of the richest Business Magnate from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Don Blankenship's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Blankenship was born in Stopover, Kentucky and raised in Delorme, West Virginia. His father was a soldier during his time in the Korean War and his mother, Nancy McCoy, was part of the McCoy family. The couple divorced shortly following the time Don was born. with the money from her divorce settlement Don’s mom ran the convenience store as well as a gas station for the last 40 years. After finishing Matewan High School, located in Matewan, West Virginia in 1968, Don earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting at Marshall University in 1972 in just three years of college working as coal miner in the union during the summer months and took the entire year off from to attend school. He was awarded Marshall’s “Most Distinguished Alumni” award and was inducted into the Lewis College of Business Hall of Fame in 1999.

Blankenship has been vocal about his criticism of the coverage of media and has called out false attacks from liberal media. He has also stated that “the truth needs to be told about what happened at the Upper Big Branch coal mine” on the grounds that only one person of the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration was selected to investigate the accident. In a documentary from the 1980s, Blankenship stated about business, “It’s like a jungle, where a jungle is survival of the fittest. Unions, communities, people — everybody’s gonna have to learn to accept that in the United States you have a capitalist society, and that capitalism, from a business standpoint, is survival of the most productive.”

Washington political journalist Michael Tomasky, also a native West Virginian, claimed that Blankenship was “famous in West Virginia as the man who successfully bought himself a State Supreme Court Justice in 2004 and then tried to buy himself the state legislature, failing spectacularly at the latter effort.” In his 2008 book Coal River, Michael Shnayerson reports that no such foundation was ever set up. Although Blankenship was the primary donor to “And For the Sake of Kids,” other groups, including Doctors for Justice, contributed over $1 million to ASK. Another group, Citizens for Quality Health Care, funded in part by the West Virginia Chamber of Commerce, spent over $350,000 to defeat McGraw. Meanwhile, several groups spent millions opposing Benjamin and supporting McGraw, including West Virginia Consumers for Justice and Hugh Caperton, CEO of Harmon Development Corporation. Blankenship is featured in Laurence Leamer’s 2013 book The Price of Justice: A True Story of Greed and Corruption and in Peter Galuszka’s 2012 book Thunder on the Mountain: Death at Massey and the Dirty Secrets Behind Big Coal.

In 2004, Blankenship contributed $3 million to the “And For The Sake of the Kids” PAC, campaigning against the reelection of West Virginia Supreme Court Justice Warren McGraw. Brent Benjamin went on to defeat McGraw in the general election. Speaking about the election, Blankenship said, “I helped defeat a judge who had released a pedophile to work in a local school, who had driven doctors out of state, and who had cost workers their jobs for thirty plus years. I think this effort helped unchain West Virginia’s economy and benefited working families.” USA Today called Blankenship’s ads “venomous.” According to a USA Today editorial dated March 3, 2009, Blankenship “vividly illustrated how big money corrupts judicial elections. It puts justice up for sale to the highest bidder.”

At a 2009 Labor Day rally in West Virginia, Blankenship said that federal and state mining regulators are ineffective at improving mine safety, and that the mining companies themselves are better suited to the task and should have less oversight, saying, “Washington and state politicians have no idea how to improve miners’ safety.”

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On January 15, 2008, photographs of Blankenship vacationing on the French Riviera with West Virginia Supreme Court Justice Spike Maynard, while Massey had a case pending before that court, appeared in The New York Times. On April 3, 2008, ABC News reported that Blankenship attacked an ABC News photographer at a Massey facility near Belfry, Kentucky as the photographer attempted to question Blankenship about the photos. “If you’re going to start taking pictures of me, you’re liable to get shot!” Blankenship stated in the video. Maynard later lost his bid for reelection to the West Virginia Supreme Court in the primary election. On February 14, 2009, Blankenship told The New York Times, “I’ve been around West Virginia long enough to know that politicians don’t stay bought, particularly ones that are going to be in office for 12 years… So I would never go out and spend money to try to gain favor with a politician. Eliminating a bad politician makes sense. Electing somebody hoping he’s going to be in your favor doesn’t make any sense at all.”

Blankenship was paid $17.8 million in 2009, the highest in the coal industry. It was a $6.8 million raise over 2008, and almost double his compensation package in 2007. Blankenship also received a deferred compensation package valued at $27.2 million in 2009.

Who is Don Blankenship Dating?

According to our records, Don Blankenship is possibily single & has not been previously engaged. As of December 1, 2023, Don Blankenship’s is not dating anyone.

In an October 30, 2009, letter to the editor of The Charleston Gazette, Blankenship denied that climate change, or global warming, exists, and said, “Why should we trust a report by the United Nations? The United Nations includes countries like Venezuela, North Korea and Iran.” According to Blankenship, “the environmental movement isn’t a great cause, it’s a great business”, and in addition to lying about the Upper Big Branch mine disaster, the government has also lied “about the science of global warming.”

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“Prosecutors said Massey manipulated the ventilation system during inspections of the Upper Big Branch mine to fool safety officials and disabled a methane monitor on a cutting machine a few months before the explosion on April 5, 2010…. In March 2013 Blankenship was directly implicated in conspiring to skirt safety regulations when a former Massey Energy official accused Blankenship of conspiring and plotting to hide safety violations from federal safety inspectors. The implication was that Blankenship would order his officials to warn mine operators when the federal inspectors were coming for “surprise” visits, and to quickly cover up any safety violations.

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